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KurdistanObserver.com
Kurdistan President To Help Solve Iraq's
Constitutional Problems
Baghdad, July 19, -VOI- The Iraqi parliament's
constitutional amendments committee is waiting for the arrival of Iraq's
Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani in Baghdad to help resolve disputes over
some points in the Iraqi constitution, head of the committee Hammam Hammoudi
said on Thursday.
"The two points of dispute facing the constitutional amendments committee are
related to the (Iraqi) president's powers and the implementation of article 140
pertaining to the situation in Kikruk," Hammoudi said.
Article 140, the most controversial in the Iraqi constitution, is related to the
normalization of the situation in Kirkuk, an important and mixed city of
majority of Kurds, Christians, Arabs and Turkmen
Kurds seek to include the city in the
autonomous Iraq's Kurdistan region, while Sunni Arabs, Turkmen and Shiite Arabs
are inclined to postpone the incorporation.
The article currently stipulates that all Arabs in Kirkuk be returned to their
original locations in southern and central Iraqi areas, and formerly displaced
residents returned to Kirkuk.
Kirkuk lies just south border of the Kurdistan autonomous region with Iraq, 250
km northeast of Baghdad. |
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